Ron Campbell
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Ron Campbell is one of only two people who animated on both The Beatles
Yellow Submarine and the ABC television series The Saturday Morning
Beatles.
Born in 1939 in Seymore, Victoria, Australia, Campbell
has been a force in animation for the past three decades. Still working
today, he is currently directing episodes of Ed, Edd, and Eddy for
Cartoon Network. Recent accomplishments also include storyboard work for
Stuart Little II.
Campbell began his animation career in the early 1960’s
on Beetle Bailey, Krazy Kat, and Cool McCool for King Features, as well
as The Beatles. He then went on to write and produce cartoons for Sesame
Street on Children’s Television Workshop.
In the early 1980s, he drew a majority of the
storyboards for Hanna-Barbera’s hit series The Smurfs, including the
Emmy-award winning Smurfolympics special. Also during the ‘80s, Campbell
was a storyboard artist for The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The 1990s took Ron Campbell to Disney TV Animation
where he was responsible for animation direction on Bonkers, Goof Troop,
and Darkwing Duck. He also did storyboarding for Klasky-Csupo’s
Nickelodeon shows, The Rugrats, Rocket Power, and Duckman. During that
time, he was nominated for an Emmy for his storyboard for Ahh! Real
Monsters